(Breitbart) - Hamas has once again apparently been
caught faking an image of a dead Palestinian child--this time using a child
likely killed by its own rocket fire and claiming that an Israeli attack was
responsible. CNN's Sara Sidner ran a full
report on the child's death,
strongly implying that an Israeli bomb had been responsible.

The dead child was paraded before the cameras during the visit of
Egyptian prime minister Hisham Kandil, who kissed the dead child in the presence
of Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. But even the New York Timeswas
suspicious.

Bloggers such as Elder of
Ziyon quickly pieced together the
evidence of Hamas fakery:

The IDF did not launch any airstrikes in Gaza while
Egyptian PM Kandil was in Gaza...

If it was an Israeli missile, you can be sure that
it would have been shown to the media! Furthermore, PCHR,
which is keeping track of everyone killed in Gaza (and which admits that most of
the dead have been "militants,") did not list Mahmoud Sadallah or Aiman Aby
Wardah in their list of victims of Israeli airstrikes, although they even
include one person who died of a heart attack.

Put this together with the fact that Hamas and other
terror groups were firing rockets throughout Friday morning while the IDF did
not, plus the fact that over 100 rockets have fallen short in Gaza (both using
past
performance and IDF
statistics as proof), and the fact
that the shrapnel in the video matches almost exactly the shrapnel damage we
have seen from rocket fire into Israel, and it is very clear: this child was
killed by Gaza rocket fire, not by Israel.

Hamas has a well-established pattern of faking
civilian deaths in Gaza, even as it seeks civilian deaths in Israel (and fakes
that, too, pretending it is firing at military targets). Last week, Breitbart
News caught Hamas using a month-old photo of a dead Syrian boy and claiming
he had been killed by Israel--a double irony, since the Assad regime that killed
the boy hosted Hamas for years before the outbreak of the Syrian civil
war.

The international community has reinforced Hamas’s
pattern of fakery by applying a double standard to Palestinian civilians killed
by Israel and Palestinian civilians killed by Hamas. When Israeli artillery
inadvertently killed civilians in Beit Hanoun in 2006, the world sprang into
action with accusations of “war
crime”; when errant Palestinian
rockets have struck civilians in Beit
Hanoun, the world has said nothing
at all.

Not every civilian death in Gaza is faked, of course. But almost every
civilian death can be attributed to Hamas, which deliberately fires rockets from
civilian areas and hides its weapons caches in mosques and homes. Since
Operation Cast Lead in 2008-9, Hamas has smuggled in more rockets that endanger the local Palestinian populace, and whose only
purpose is to target Israeli civilians. Hamas bears the moral burden of this
war.

Update:According to the office of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 60 of
the 703 rockets fired by Hamas and other terror groups since the start of the
conflict have fallen on Palestinian civilians. The Israel Defense Force
says
that 99 rockets in total that were fired at Israel have hit Gaza itself in four
days of conflict.

Update 2: Several sources now report that the child was, in fact, killed by a Hamas rocket, not
Israel. Those sources include the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Will CNN
issue a correction to its earlier false report?

Comments

Cue the dead baby

And anyway, does Islamic jihad really expect us to believe they give a fig about a dead child when they strap bombs on them and brainwash them to "love death more than [the Jews] love life?"

(Breitbart) - Hamas has once again apparently been
caught faking an image of a dead Palestinian child--this time using a child
likely killed by its own rocket fire and claiming that an Israeli attack was
responsible. CNN's Sara Sidner ran a full
report on the child's death,
strongly implying that an Israeli bomb had been responsible.

The dead child was paraded before the cameras during the visit of
Egyptian prime minister Hisham Kandil, who kissed the dead child in the presence
of Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. But even the New York Timeswas
suspicious.

Bloggers such as Elder of
Ziyon quickly pieced together the
evidence of Hamas fakery:

The IDF did not launch any airstrikes in Gaza while
Egyptian PM Kandil was in Gaza...

If it was an Israeli missile, you can be sure that
it would have been shown to the media! Furthermore, PCHR,
which is keeping track of everyone killed in Gaza (and which admits that most of
the dead have been "militants,") did not list Mahmoud Sadallah or Aiman Aby
Wardah in their list of victims of Israeli airstrikes, although they even
include one person who died of a heart attack.

Put this together with the fact that Hamas and other
terror groups were firing rockets throughout Friday morning while the IDF did
not, plus the fact that over 100 rockets have fallen short in Gaza (both using
past
performance and IDF
statistics as proof), and the fact
that the shrapnel in the video matches almost exactly the shrapnel damage we
have seen from rocket fire into Israel, and it is very clear: this child was
killed by Gaza rocket fire, not by Israel.

Hamas has a well-established pattern of faking
civilian deaths in Gaza, even as it seeks civilian deaths in Israel (and fakes
that, too, pretending it is firing at military targets). Last week, Breitbart
News caught Hamas using a month-old photo of a dead Syrian boy and claiming
he had been killed by Israel--a double irony, since the Assad regime that killed
the boy hosted Hamas for years before the outbreak of the Syrian civil
war.

The international community has reinforced Hamas’s
pattern of fakery by applying a double standard to Palestinian civilians killed
by Israel and Palestinian civilians killed by Hamas. When Israeli artillery
inadvertently killed civilians in Beit Hanoun in 2006, the world sprang into
action with accusations of “war
crime”; when errant Palestinian
rockets have struck civilians in Beit
Hanoun, the world has said nothing
at all.

Not every civilian death in Gaza is faked, of course. But almost every
civilian death can be attributed to Hamas, which deliberately fires rockets from
civilian areas and hides its weapons caches in mosques and homes. Since
Operation Cast Lead in 2008-9, Hamas has smuggled in more rockets that endanger the local Palestinian populace, and whose only
purpose is to target Israeli civilians. Hamas bears the moral burden of this
war.

Update:According to the office of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 60 of
the 703 rockets fired by Hamas and other terror groups since the start of the
conflict have fallen on Palestinian civilians. The Israel Defense Force
says
that 99 rockets in total that were fired at Israel have hit Gaza itself in four
days of conflict.

Update 2: Several sources now report that the child was, in fact, killed by a Hamas rocket, not
Israel. Those sources include the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Will CNN
issue a correction to its earlier false report?